כֵּןkên

כֵּן: I.

Pronunciation: kane · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3651

Meanings

right, veritable, honest, properly firm, upright (Exodus 10:29; Genesis 42:11; Genesis 42:19)

1. usually indecl., often as substantive a right thing (Exodus 10:29; Numbers 27:7; Numbers 36:5)

2. veritable, true (Proverbs 11:19; Isaiah 16:6; Jeremiah 48:30)

3. honest (Genesis 42:11; Genesis 42:19; Genesis 42:31)

II. thus, so, see below

III. place, base, see below כנן

IV. see below כנן

כֵּן: (i.e. usually, as has been described or commanded, with reference to what has preceded), mostly of manner, but sometimes also of quantity, quality, or degree

1.

a. so (Judges 5:31; Job 5:27; Job 8:13)

c. so (Genesis 1:7; Genesis 1:9; Genesis 1:11)

2. Often, to emphasize the agreement, in answer to כְּ, and כַּאֲשֶׁר

a. so, time (Genesis 44:10; Joshua 2:21; 1 Samuel 25:25)

c. the more... the more (Exodus 7:6; Exodus 12:28; Exodus 12:50)

d. so (Exodus 7:10; Exodus 7:20; Joshua 4:8)

3. With prepositions

a. after so, afterwards

b. in such circumstances, thereupon, then (Ecclesiastes 8:10; Esther 4:16; Exodus 15:1)

c. like so, in like manner (Isaiah 51:6)

d. according to such conditions, that being so, therefore (Numbers 16:11; 1 Samuel 27:6; Psalms 16:9)

e. hitherto, as yet (Nehemiah 2:16)

f. upon ground of such conditions, therefore, fact (Genesis 20:6; Genesis 42:21; Exodus 5:8)

כֵּן: see כון; III. כֵּן see I. כנן; IV. כֵּן see II. כנן. below

ᵑ7: thus, as follows (Daniel 2:24; Daniel 2:25; Daniel 4:11; Daniel 6:7; Daniel 7:5)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 765 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:7 And that is what happened. God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens.
  • Genesis 1:9 Then God said, “Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear.” And that is what happened.
  • Genesis 1:11 Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened.
  • Genesis 1:15 Let these lights in the sky shine down on the earth.” And that is what happened.
  • Genesis 1:24 Then God said, “Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals.” And that is what happened.
  • Genesis 1:30 And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.” And that is what happened.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).